I don't know if you have read Luke 15 lately... please take/make time to do it... even right now.
What do you think of the prodigal? Not that one... not the son... the other prodigal... the one the story is about. I thought for a long time the story was about the son. It is not... the story is about the Father... the one who welcomes tax collectors and sinners (15:1).
What an amazing Father. Can you imagine how he felt? Your child comes and says - I know I should wait until you are dead... but I don't want to wait that long... can we act like you are gone... so I can take my $ and be gone. Who could blame a father if he "straightened him out" or cut him off... kicked him out... but not this father... not our Father.
Our Father let us go... chose our own path... make a mess out of our lives... in other's lives... knowing, yet still letting us waste what was His.
THEN... when we were in the pig pen.. broke and broken... when we remember where we have been and want to come home... He is waiting... He is watching... He is running... He is compassionate... He is loving... He is welcoming... He is celebrating...
Not even worthy to be slaves... made children because of His grace. What a prodigal our Father is. He is extravagantly wasteful.
Sunday, December 09, 2007
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I find it odd/interesting/funny that you choose to write about this THIS week.....not knowing what was coming...not knowing how IT would feel or affect us...before it even happened you were writing and thinking about how the Heavenly Father feels about us....what HE does for us.
Pretty neat if you ask me!!
Love you,
RaDonna
I read the post again yesterday. It helped my heart deal with the pain. I feel better today - felt worse last night - guess I'm on something of a roller coaster. This morning it just amazes me that one could/would think of acting in such painful/hurtful ways - regardless of who you are and who you are doing it to. Then I put it into context of talk and walk and think I should not be amazed or feel such pain, which is followed by - yes, you STILL should.
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